Portraits are pictures of people, gods or mythological figures in human form

The Son of Man, Rene Magritte, 1964, self-portrait

Henry VIII, Hans Holbein ,1540, head and shoulders portrait, Gallerie Nazionale d'ArteAntica, Rome

Marilyn, Andy Warhol , face portrait,1967, Screenprint, Tate Gallery, London.

Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, Giuseppe Arcimboldo,1591

The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770, full-body, Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, The Art Institute of Chicago

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